Hasitleaked is a site that tells you if albums have leaked and where they have leaked, not always accurate but still useful. Realmofmetal and getmetal are sites that will have every latest metal leaks, exystence is your go to for any new indie album leaks, audio loot is also a good site for general leaks.

By default Google displays the sites most relevant to your search and has most views, links etc. you can change the settings to display the MOST RECENT links pertaining to your topic. So if you search for a zip or rar file this way you will almost always find it.

4shared is an essential tool to building any music collection. You have to create an account and give an email but no problems after that. If you don't want to use your real email just use an email generator like yop mail to create your account. This site has pretty much every album.

So say you were searching for "altj- an awesome wave" what I would do is first resort go to google, immediatley set the preferences to display most recent, and anytime. Search for "altj- an awesome wave rar" if rar doesn't work try zip, blog, 4shared, mediafire, and download instead of rar. If none of those work try "the year album was released" instead of the album name. You should then be able to find it.

Great thread. I listen to a lot of Japanese music, and that industry has a stranglehold over licensing and distribution, sort of like how the American industry used to be. Albums on Amazon, if they even have them at all, are 30 dollars or more. So this helps me a whole lot.